That was a difficult article (pictures actually) to read. It shows (to me at least) how intimately our humanity is linked to a face that passes our own internal pattern matching heuristics.
I'm not proud to admit my initial thought was not how difficult life must be for her but rather how deformed her face was.
But then I was proud that my (our) inherent human intelligence and morality was able to put that thought aside and wonder what I could do to help her.
I'm not proud to admit my initial thought was not how difficult life must be for her but rather how deformed her face was.
But then I was proud that my (our) inherent human intelligence and morality was able to put that thought aside and wonder what I could do to help her.